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- From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
- Subject: Re: Maya's poem
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:48:22 GMT
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- BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
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- >Karsten raises a thorny textual issue: What happened to the Eskimo (or
- >for that matter, the Arab) in three versions we saw here of "On the Pulse
- >of the Morning"?
-
- Doris, Entropy, and abh are being PC. I could have sworn I heard an
- Eskimo in there when I was watching on TV, and the New York Times' version of
- the poem has the Eskimo. I don't know about the politically correct canon,
- but I believe there is a tribe called the Eskimos. However, there are also
- Inuits, Tlingits, etc., and they don't like being called Eskimos, because
- they're not.
-
- Tom Lee
- who will probably go look it up later
-